Improved trunk-handle cap



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WILLIAM S. JESSUP, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 105,085, dated July 5, 1870.

IMPROVED TRUNK-HANDLE CAP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

*Nv-h I, WILLIAM S. Jessup, of Newark, in, the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented au Improved Trunk-handlc'Oap, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists` of a trunk-handle cap, formed by the cap portion heilig struck or pressed from sheet metal, with a spur of malleable iron, made separately, and riveted to the sheet-metal cap, upon its external raised portion, this process and combination forming a lighter, cheaper, better nished, and moreA durable article than that made by the methods hitherto in use and also informing a tenon at the head of the spur, and passing said spur through the cap and handle, and into the trunk.

Insthe drawing- Figure I is an external, and

Figure Il, a reverse view ofthe cap;

Figure III is an end view of the cap or sheet-metal portion alone,'the spur being indicated by dot-tedv lines; and

Figure IV, a view of the spur previous to its being attached to the cap, the hitter being indicated by dotted lines. 4

Heretofore handle-caps for trunks, valises, and bags have been made by-casting them ent-ire, which method has the disadvantage that the cast-iron is brittle, and liable to breakin nailing them on the trunk; and this can only be avoidedV by the process of malleablizing the iron after casting, which is impractcable, in consequenceof rendering them too expensive for the market; and, when cast, they have to be made too heavy in order to secure strength, and thesurface is rough and unfinished.

When made of sheet metal, heretofore, they have been made without the spur, making it necessary to secure the Ahandle to the trunk by other means beforeapplying the cap, which serves, then, more as an ornament than as a fastening.

Myimprovement obviat-es all of these objections; the cap, being of sheet metal, leavesgthe dies smoothly `i`nished,-is light, but strong, and cannot be broken in nailing on, while the spur, being of malleable iron,

which it is affixed to the truuk or other article to which it is applied.

The spur bis made with a tenon, t', on its larger end, which is inserted in a suitably-sized hole in the cap, and riveted on the back, as seen in`ig. l. It passes through ahole cnt in the leather handle, and

its point is of snficient length to enter the woodofl the trunk, making it a very strong bearing to resist strain.

I claim- As anew article ot' manufacture, a trunk-haiullc cap, formed'ofthe sheet-metal part A, and the riveted spur b, substantially as an'dfor the purposes herein set forth.

WM. S. J ESSUP.

Witnesses J. FRASER, g KATE N. Jones. 

